Similarities Between How To Talk To Girls At Parties And The Great Gatsby

Are you having trouble with your relationship? Well, you’re not alone, the short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, and the book The Great Gatsby are novels based on relationships. Let's first talk about the similarities“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” are similar to the book The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby and How to Talk to Girls at parties are similar because the characters have similar personalities, fighting scenes, and In chapter one, Tom and Vic have similar personalities. Both Tom and Vic enforce ownership over girls. Vic was holding Stella’s hand as they danced, and when the song ended “ “he put an arm around her, casually, almost proprietorially, to make sure that nobody else cut in.” (Gaiman 5). Vic is acting like he owns Stella putting his arm around her so nobody else touches her. “Tom’s got some women in New York.” (Fitzgerald 15). This means that Tom has a mistress at New York making him a cheater. CLOSING SENTENCE One of the comparisons is both men are abusing women. In both stories, the characters Vic and Tom are abusing Myrtle and Stella. Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand (Fitzgerald 37). Here Tom got annoyed of Myrtle to keep on talking about Daisy so he slapped her across the face. Her clothes
Gatsby and Vic both enjoy going to big parties and having big parties. Sometimes they came and went without having met with Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission (Fitzgerald 41). A friend had told Vic about a party, and Vic was determined to go whether I liked it or not, and I didn’t.(Gaiman 1). The party is so big that people come without meeting or saying hi to the host. Vic doesn’t care about which parties it is or who he’s taking he’s definitely going if it’s a party. Overall both Gatsby and Vic enjoy going to parties and having fun with their